Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6

Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6
An Afghan soldier patrols outside Kabul's airport after an Afghan Army officer opened fire on foreign troops Wednesday after an argument at the airport.
April 27, 2011
Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A veteran Afghan military officer gunned down six NATO servicemembers and wounded five Afghan soldiers Wednesday after an argument at the Kabul airport, Afghan and coalition officials said.

It was the seventh incident so far this year in which members of the Afghan security forces, or insurgents impersonating them, have killed coalition soldiers or members of the Afghan security forces.

NATO did not disclose the nationalities of the troops killed pending notification of their families.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, but Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said the gunman was an Afghan military pilot who "opened fire on foreigners after an argument."

The pilot was killed in the morning shooting, which occurred at a facility used by the Afghan Air Force, Azimi said.

Azimi said the shooter was a military pilot of 20 years. "An argument happened between him and the foreigners and we have to investigate that."

An Afghan pilot who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the gunman was Ahmad Gul, a 50-year-old pilot from Tarakhail district of Kabul province.

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In a statement, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said, however, that the gunman was impersonating an army officer and that others at the facility helped him gain access. The gunman killed nine foreigners and five Afghan soldiers, he said. The Taliban often exaggerate the number of casualties caused by their attacks.

Taliban insurgents have stepped up their attacks on government and military installations across Afghanistan.

On April 18, an insurgent managed to sneak past security at the heavily fortified Afghan Defense Ministry compound in the capital and killed two Afghan soldiers and an officer.

Two days before that, an Afghan soldier walked into a meeting of NATO trainers and Afghan troops at Forward Operating Base Gamberi in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan and detonated a vest of explosives hidden underneath his uniform. The blast killed six NATO troops, four Afghan soldiers and an interpreter.

On April, 15, a suicide bomber dressed as a policeman blew himself up inside the Kandahar police headquarters complex, killing the top law enforcement officer in the restive southern province.

In northwest Afghanistan, a man wearing an Afghan border police uniform shot and killed two American military personnel on April 4 in Faryab. The gunman was upset over the recent burning of the Quran at a Florida church, according to NATO intelligence officials.

In February, an Afghan soldier, who felt he had been personally offended by his German partners, shot and killed three German soldiers and wounded six others in the northern province of Baghlan.

In January, an Afghan solider killed an Italian soldier and wounded another in Badghis province. The two soldiers were cleaning their weapons at a combat outpost when an Afghan soldier approached them with an M16 rifle and asked to use their equipment to clean his gun. The Italians saw that the Afghan soldier's rifle was loaded and asked him to unload it, at which point the Afghan soldier shot the two Italians and escaped from the base.

Before Wednesday's shooting at the airport, the coalition had recorded 20 incidents since March 2009 where a member of the Afghan security forces or someone wearing a uniform used by them attacked coalition forces, killing a total of 36. It is not known how many of the 282,000 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed in these type of incidents.

According to information compiled by NATO, half of the 20 incidents involved the impersonation of an Afghan policeman or soldier. The cause of the other 10 incidents were attributed to combat stress or unknown reasons. NATO said that so far, there is no solid evidence -- despite Taliban assertions -- that any insurgent has joined the Afghan security forces for the sole purpose of conducting attacks on coalition or Afghan forces.

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Re: Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6

April 27 2011, 2:30 PM

"Before Wednesday's shooting at the airport, the coalition had recorded 20 incidents since March 2009 where a member of the Afghan security forces or someone wearing a uniform used by them attacked coalition forces, killing a total of 36."

I have a big f***ing issue with this, this is what troubles me with officers and their great ideas that get men killed. If there were any justice such tools would be relieved of command and tried for negligence. How cheaply will we lay down our lives?

You have no idea how many times during this deployment, living on the base which Afghan soldiers shared with us, I wondered if I was about to be shot in the back.

Re: Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6

April 28 2011, 2:33 PM

yea lier noone have ever heard this prayer only you pussy pakis. americans are compassinate people and try to not kill innocent afghans. and you come here barking..... remember if it were sikhs or indians we wont be compassionate like them.. you kill one we kill 100. americans need to change their tactics. punish them

Re: Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6

Why don't you try to take over Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan and see what happens?

Talk is cheap and no action.

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The Muslims believe that Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) was not crucified on the cross. They believe that he was raised to the heavens by the Lord and the Lord put someone (the Lord made him look like Jesus) in Jesus spot. There will be a day when Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) will return to this world. He will return not as a prophet but as a follower of Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). Upon his arrival all the world's Christians will become Muslims. After some time the whole world will become Muslim for the Lord has said the whole world will taste Islam. I can't wait for that day. Indeed only someone so great can bring something so beautiful.

Long live the great Muslim people.
Long live the great Muslim nations.

Re: Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6

You have no idea how many times during this deployment, living on the base which Afghan soldiers shared with us, I wondered if I was about to be shot in the back.

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RE: well come to afganistan..... all foriegners are fair game

Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia

Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.

Re: Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6

"Lord Shiva save me from the bite of the Tiger, Venom of the Cobra and Vengeance of the Pashtun"

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RE: or may they didnt want to get shower raped................

Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia

Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.

Re: Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6

May 2 2011, 1:05 AM

its funny how 2 million afghan pashtuns are putting up more than a fight

and how 700 million indians/sikhs got bent over and ****** by the british for 200 YEARS without the indians/sikhs even clinching their butt cheeks in defence, lol all indians.sikhs produced was the warrior gandhi!!!!

know ur history indians

One Thousand years of Turko-Pathan supremacy in Hindustan

The spread of Islam in the tribal belt dates back to the rise of the Turkish dynasty in Ghazni from about 960 AD. Mahmud of Ghazni conquered and incorporated areas of the subcontinent up to Lahore. Ghorid Sultan Muizzuddin Muhammad, with his headquarters in Ghor, subdued the north part of the subcontinent and was the founder of Muslim supremacy in Delhi in 1206. The fall of the Ghorids was followed by successive incursions of various forces from Central Asia. The most notable of these were those of conquerors Genghis Khan in 1221 and of Timur in 1398.

The tribesmen formed the spearhead of the Muslim penetration and conquest of India, first as soldiers of fortune and later as powerful kings, even as sultans and emperors.[citation needed] The Turks were a small band of chosen favourites; the soldiers, and later the rulers, were Ghaljis or Pathans.[citation needed] Apart from the Turks, i.e. Ghaznavids (1001-1186), Ghorids (1186-1290), and Tughlaqs (1321-1451), three Pathan dynasties, i.e., Khaljis (1290-1321), Lodis (1451-1526) and Suris (1539-55), had sat on the throne of Delhi. But their authority did not extend over the tribal belt. Babur, the conqueror of India and founder of the Mughal dynasty, wrote of the empire of Lodis that its writ did not run effectively west of the Indus, and it had no control over the Afghan or Pathan homelands from which its rulers had originally come.[citation needed]

The Pathan dynasties who ruled in India attracted many frontiersmen to their banners."[citation needed] The firman (royal edict) of Bahlol Lodhi (1451-1489), the ruler of Delhi, encouraging frontier tribes of the northwest to take service in Delhi stated:

Hindustan can best be held by somebody who rules over a nation with tribes. Let every Afghan tribesman bring his relatives leading a life of indigence, let them come and take up estates in Hind, relieving themselves from straitened circumstances, and supporting the State against powerful enemies.[citation needed]

The declining flow of Pathan warriors from the tribal belt may be one of the important causes of their downfall.[citation needed] The lack of support became obvious after the death of Sher Shah Su

Re: Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6

May 4 2011, 11:54 PM

Apex did you also have third country nationals with automatic weapons guarding the DFACs and conducting random ID card checks in Afghanistan/Iraq? My friend almost punched (he had to be stopped by 2 of us for fear of an untimely Article 15) a Ethiopian square on the face for flagging him with his weapon while we tried to get some chow.

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Re: Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6

Why don't you try to take over Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan and see what happens?

Talk is cheap and no action.
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AS IF WE HAVENT TAKEN OVER THEM BEFORE.. HARI SINGH NALWA RING A BELL IN YOUR HEAD.... whenever afghans tried jehad against him he razed entire village unlike nato american without showing mercy..remember to this day afghan mothers to pacify errant kids say " chup she hari singh nalwa vaghla" be quite or singh nalwa will come.

an entire afghan city is named after him...******* women clothe wearing afghans now you have the stomach to look in eyes of sikh.. but remember another hari singh will rise and march to your lands and put you in place.

these shalwar wearing enuches are fighter for you only not for us. vietnamese were much better fighters than these tattos

Re: Afghan Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Kills 6

Fortunately not, we did have some wild times with the ANA though, on a nearby FOB one day an ANA soldier was high and decided to shoot at an American guard tower, the guard had to put him down, lol.

Another memorable incident was a ANA brigade commander who threatened to turn on American forces while in a meeting with our brigade commander, so our commander immediately requests permission to relieve this d-bag and the request was approved. American MPs took the guy's weapon, took him a couple miles off the FOB and drops him off, alone and in ANA uniform deep in Taliban country. Have fun!